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Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Kim Davis and Robert Bentley - Poster Children for Chistofascist Hypocrisy

Time and time again the Christofascists who campaign against LGBT equality and same sex marriage in particular prove that it is they, not gays, who are the real threat to the "sanctity of marriage." As the four times married Rowan County clerk faces a contempt of court hearing tomorrow, new bomb shells are underscoring her rank hypocrisy on the issue of "Biblical marriage." U.S. News & World Reports has some of the salacious details. Here are highlights:

The Kentucky county clerk facing potentially stiff penalties for
refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses has been married four
times, raising questions of hypocrisy and selective application of the
Bible to her life.

The marriages are documented in court records
obtained by U.S. News, which show that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis
divorced three times, first in 1994, then 2006 and again in 2008.

She
gave birth to twins five months after divorcing her first husband. They
were fathered by her third husband but adopted by her second.
Davis worked at the clerk's office at the time of each divorce and has
since remarried.

Davis has described her desire to strictly adhere
to the Bible in stark terms and thus far has shown no sign of bending
to court orders on same-sex marriage. She said Tuesday she fears going
to hell for violating "a central teaching" of the Bible if she complies
with the orders.

Staver says “it’s not really relevant, it’s something that happened in
her past” and that her conversion to Christianity about four years ago
wiped her slate clean. “It’s something that’s not relevant to the issue
at hand,” he says. “She was 180 degrees changed.”

Davis' selective application of the Bible is akin to that of Maggie Gallagher who seems to have never gotten over her unwed mother status in college. As blogger friend Bob Felton notes:

It doesn’t need much imagination to understand how that string of bad
marriages and relationships, and the complicated paternity of her
children, might have had a debilitating effect upon her judgment, her
self-esteem, her sense of self and worth.

And then she encounters a predatory cult that targets the insecure
and the damaged, and fastens on to it like a lamprey — because her
‘church family’ and the love of an Invisible Friend are all that she
has.

Maybe that’s how it happened, and maybe not; obviously, I speculate. It’s a familiar progression, however.

Gov. Robert Bentley and
Rebekah Caldwell Mason
(From HBTV.us)

Davis, however, isn't the only hypocrite when it comes to marriage. The wife of anti-gay Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, has filed for divorce? Why? Because of her husband's affair with a staffer. Like Davis, Bentley is a complete hypocrite. Here are details from Legal Schnauzer:

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley engaged in an extramarital affair with his former communications director, leading First Lady Dianne Bentley to file for divorce last Friday after 50 years of marriage, sources tell Legal Schnauzer.

Rebekah Caldwell Mason, a married mother of three from Bentley's home
base of Tuscaloosa, was the governor's mistress in an affair that
sources say raises a number of possible legal issues--including use of
the state jet and a state trooper's services for personal reasons that
had nothing to do with Bentley's official role.According to Dianne Bentley's divorce complaint,
the couple separated in January 2015 because of a "complete
incompatibility of temperament" and a "conflict of personalities which
destroys the legitimate aims of matrimony." In fact, sources say, Gov.
Bentley's affair with Mason destroyed the matrimonial bonds.

The 72-year-old Bentley, a Republican serving in his second term,
repeatedly has touted his Christian faith and conservative "family
values" to attract voters. He long has served as a deacon at First
Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa. Bentley made national headlines in 2011 when,
shortly after his inauguration, he said, ""Anybody here today who has
not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not
my brother and you're not my sister. And I want to be your brother."

Rebekah Caldwell Mason, sources say, quickly became more than just a
communications director to Bentley. Their affair became so widely known
that it diluted any moral authority the governor might have had.

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